Enhancing Local Authorities Community Engagment: Co-designing & Prototyping Strategies for Carbon Emission Reduction.
Lead Research Organisation:
University of St Andrews
Department Name: School of Geography and Geosciences
Abstract
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Publications
Hamid Van Koten (Author)
(2011)
Co-creation as social innovation : designing carbon reduction strategies with local authorities and community groups
Meyerricks, S
(2016)
Learning to be low carbon: lessons from two community projects
White, R.M.
(2013)
The Sustainable University: Progress and prospects.
White, R.M.
(2016)
CO-DESIGNING FOR SUSTAINABILITY: STRATEGISING COMMUNITY CARBON EMISSION REDUCTION THROUGH SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL INNOVATION
in The Design Journal
White, R.M.
(2013)
The Sustainable University: Progress and prospects.
White, R.M.
(2012)
Designing the transition to sustainability: resourcing community resilience
White, R.M.
(2013)
The Sustainable University: Progress and prospects.
White, R.M.
(2012)
Designing the transition to sustainability: resourcing community resilience.
| Description | • The co-design process allowed universities, local authority, communities and NGOs to widely frame the issues, develop trust and relationships and participate in an iterative process to develop innovative and effective solutions. • Local Authorities (LAs) are beginning to shift from service provision to enabling agencies. This alternative delivery mechanism will need to address high levels of community dependency, and maintain focus in disadvantaged areas. • Building community resilience will facilitate their responses to different kinds of sustainability challenges and enable them to adapt to future environmental changes. • LAs can tackle infrastructural barriers, such as transport and energy planning, that limit community responses to climate change mitigation. • Whilst some communities have demonstrated remarkable abilities in climate change mitigation and sustainability action, others lack capacity. Education and resources will need to be focused especially on marginalised communities. • The era of financial austerity threatens the resourcing of frontline LA staff to assist staff, but offers opportunities through carbon accounting, potential community income through renewable energy generation and increased cross sectoral work. • A local authority is itself a form of community. Through this recognition, internal engagement and mobilisation can better prepare all staff to be aware and supportive of local communities' climate challenge activities. |
| Exploitation Route | Policy brief |
| Sectors | Education Environment Government Democracy and Justice |
| Description | Capacity building of individuals within communities and local authorities who then took results further Policy within Fife Council to enhance community reduction of carbon emissions Conceptual across the learning for sustainability and governance areas of thinking |
| First Year Of Impact | 2010 |
| Sector | Education,Environment |
| Impact Types | Cultural Societal Economic |
| Description | Fife community plan |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | by focusing on climate change as a major issue yet highlighting paradoxical relationship with economic growth, this research partially contributed to framing of the community plan for fife |
| Description | Dancing with new partners : developing novel research methods to establish and monitor impacts of user engagement in times of austerity |
| Amount | £23,768 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Southampton |
| Department | ESRC National Centre for Research Methods |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2011 |
| End | 05/2012 |
| Description | Dancing with new partners : developing novel research methods to establish and monitor impacts of user engagement in times of austerity |
| Amount | £23,768 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Southampton |
| Department | ESRC National Centre for Research Methods |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2011 |
| End | 05/2012 |
| Description | Designing the transition to sustainability : resourcing community resilience |
| Amount | £24,900 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Scottish Universities Insight Institute |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2011 |
| End | 05/2012 |
| Description | Designing the transition to sustainability : resourcing community resilience |
| Amount | £24,900 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Scottish Universities Insight Institute |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2011 |
| End | 05/2012 |
| Description | Talk to representatives at Sustainable Scotland Network (Local Authorities Scotland) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | talk sparked discussion and interest for other LAs to take forward collaboration with universities and projects other reps wanted projects like this! |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | talk to Fife Council reps |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | talk shifted strategic direction within LA discussion of community resilience in carbon task group; helped change scenario framing of community plan for Fife |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |